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'The Boys': Amazon renews superhero series for Season 4

By Annie Martin   |   June 10, 2022 at 11:38 AM
Karl Urban plays Billy Butcher on the Prime Video series "The Boys." File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI Jack Quaid attends the New York premiere of "Vinyl" in 2016. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Erin Moriarty attends the SAG Awards in 2020. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Jessie T. Usher attends the New York premiere of "Shaft" in 2019. File Photo by Serena Xu-Ning/UPI Laz Alonso attends the NAACP Image Awards in 2013. File Photo by Phil McCarten/UPI

June 10 (UPI) -- The Boys will return for a fourth season on Prime Video.

Amazon Studios confirmed in a press release Friday that it renewed the superhero series for Season 4.

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The Boys is based on the Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson comic book of the same name. The show follows the Boys, a group of vigilantes, as they attempt to take down a team of corrupt superheroes, known as the Seven.

The TV series is developed by Eric Kripke and stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Kapon and Karen Fukuhara.

News of the renewal follows The Boys' three-episode Season 3 premiere last week. In the first three days since the premiere, the worldwide audience for the show has grown by +17% from Season 2 and +234% from Season 1.

"From our first conversation with Eric Kripke and the creative team about Season Three of The Boys, we knew the show was continuing to get even bolder -- an impressive feat considering the wild success of the Emmy-nominated second season," Amazon Studios head of global television Vernon Sanders said.

"The Boys continues to push boundaries in storytelling while also being relentlessly entertaining and threading the needle on social satire that feels all too real," he added. "We are immensely proud of the cast and crew that has spawned a franchise for Prime Video, and we look forward to bringing more of The Boys to our customers."

The Boys franchise also includes the anthology animated series The Boys Presents: Diabolical and an upcoming spinoff set at America's only college exclusively for young-adult superheroes.